The thought of changing one of your legacy IT systems for new cutting-edge technology might well get the average business user excited but at the same time also fills the average IT team with dread at the thought of migrating years of data or integrating it with existing solutions. While there have been great strides…
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New systems, please!
Reading the last issue of Housing Technology, a few items caught my attention: Orbit with its timeline; Futures Housing with its tenant engagement apps; along with the articles with ‘digital’ in the headline. Those articles made me think of what ‘wonder pills’ the IT industry has prescribed, and what ‘lotions & potions’ the software providers…
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Jumping the fence – From gamekeeper to poacher
Housing Technology interviewed Keith Saunders, MIS-AMS’ new leader of customer support after, as gamekeeper turned poacher, he joined the software supplier in April 2017 after 30 years of working in-house at different housing providers. Have you always been interested in IT? Like a lot of people, I fell into IT almost by accident. Until April…
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Has the dawn of IoT finally broken?
The internet of things (IoT) and its relationship with social housing has been labelled by some people as “a technology looking for an application”. I have been looking at IoT and engaging with the sector for over four years now, educating, informing and learning with the sector on how IoT can be used for the…
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Making bigger better for tenants
The growing number of housing mergers has caused concern about their impact on tenants but Northgate Public Services’ housing director, Roger Birkinshaw, believes bigger can be better for tenants. Continued pressures on the housing sector to be more efficient mean we can expect to see more mergers in the future. However, it’s my belief that…
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Enhancing tenant communications
There is increasing pressure on housing associations to deliver value for money in their regular communications with tenants and leaseholders. Communications, such as rent and service charge statements, are often complex and costly documents to produce. Many still rely on laborious manual processes, as well as staff goodwill, in their regular communications processes. So how…
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